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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2924)	2/15/2004 11:22:11 PM
From: coug	Respond to of 3079

Hi Lizzie, I really don't know how far along Yucca is either. I think most work up to now has been geologic studies, seismic, structural, lithology, and other stability type stuff. The main problem with developing one large disposal area far from most major users of nuclear energy is that it will make it so much easier to authorize and build new plants when a depository is in place to dump the waste. Hey, they will say, we don't have to foul our own nest, Nevada can have our sheet. Also that one site far from the plants brings in all kinds of other dangers too, like shipping, etc.. And then, with the disposal site available, we as a society can revert back to our old ways and not feel pressured to research and develop new alternative clean energy solutions.. So IMO, having the Yucca site is a psychologically bad idea besides the direct environmental damage. It damages the whole country in the long run. c

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (2924)	2/16/2004 5:58:30 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 3079

I'm still hoping John Edwards can pull an upset in Wisc & pull ahead of Kerry. He has priority issues in order for voters. I listened really closely to Kerry in last night's debate(hoping somehow there was more there there than has been apparent) but sadly can't see anything other than another Wash insider who will pander to lobbyists in same way as Bush: excerpted from an article by E.J. Dionne, Wash.POST Writers Group Sen. John Edwards who has had a perfect rhetorical pitch in this year's presidential campaign, altered trhe opening of his stump speech this week. The change is a warning to free traders: Guys, you'd better wake up. There's a rebellion in the country; a justified revolt by workers who cannot understand why the economic recovery has produced so few new jobs for Americans. Edwards, with his lawyer's gift for creating compelling narratives, told the tale of a father coming home from his factory job to put his daughter to bed. "He knows his night is over when he gives her a hug," Edwards said, speaking in Milwaukee on Tuesday. "But tonight when he comes home, he'll be coming home to tell her that his factory is closing, that he's about to lose his job." It's worth hearing Edwards to understand the power of this issue. He's not telling an economic story. He's offering a morality tale about a decent American hammered by the system. "It's not because he's done anything wrong," Edwards said of this father. He's done what he's supposed to do, he's been responsible, he's worked hard, he's raised his family." Nor is the factory closing because the company has decided to stop making its product. "The problems is they're going to make it somewhere else," Edwards says. "they're going to make it somewhere outside of his community, outside of his country." Why? "they only care about profits, they have lobbyists everywhere, and they own this White House." Edwards closes his case. The people in charge, he says, "don't hear the other American. They don't see the face of this father who had to come home and tell his little girl that he no longer had a job." Now contrast Edwards' evocative language withe the cold words of the new Economic Report of the President and you'll understand why even Republicans such as House Speaker Dennis Hastert are furious at President Bush's economists. "One facet of increased services trade is the increased use of OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING in which a company relocates labor-intensive service industry functions to another country," the report says dryly, italicizing the key phrase. But not to worry. "When a good or service is produced more cheaply abroad," the report of the president lectures, "it makes more sense to import it than to make or provide it domestically." Makes sense to whom? On Tuesday, a group of 19 Democratic senators, led by New York's Charles E. Schumer and including Edwards, called upon Bush to repudiate the report. In a separate letter to Bush, Edwards asked: "Would it be a 'good thing' if the current members of the Council of Economic Advisers saw their jobs outsourced to economists elsewhere in America who better understand the need to save good jobs?"